Are you afraid of being “Smart”?

In today’s world, even with all this competition, some kids, especially girls, still seem afraid to show their smarts! Science needs you to use your intelligence to make great discoveries so we can all make this world a bigger, better, brighter place.

Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls is a great website I found on valuing being your weird, wonderful, intelligent self over trying to fit in. “Change the world by being yourself” is their motto. There’s so many posts on female empowerment that really every girl should read. We enjoy the science section the most. It’s great!

AmySmartGirls.comTheir Retweet on our twitter feed.

I really hope you check it out.

(Note: I’m not being sponsored by them in any way! This is all sincere.)

When my sisters and I were growing up, being weird, wonderful, intelligent girls meant that we would probably have to wait until high school to find kindred spirits in our small public school system. We were lucky to find even one. In the new millennium, with networking opportunities across the globe, I think my 3 daughters may have felt less isolated. Not that they didn’t still struggle with pressure to fit in. But now, they’re in their late 20s. They have so many cool, interesting friends who are fiercely, joyously proud to be smart, engaged, curious and creative. I guess the message is, “It gets better!”

It is too late to sometimes realize that it great to be smart. In school, intelligence leads to bullying and doesn’t make you “popular”. It feels so much better to bite your tongue and be a part of the group than speak out and be knocked out 🙁 It is too late to realize the harm we are doing to our mindset and our skills.

Problem is the orthodox society encourages girls to be quiet and not to display their smartness. Sad. It’s great steps like this website that helps the girls of the field have the support and confidence needed to step up , Kudos !

My Little Granddaughter is only 6.. And she is as bright as button.. Reading far in advance of her years.. Shes on her next years class work.. 🙂 When I ask her what she wants to be.. She has said from the age of of four I want to be a Dr.. 🙂 Science will be one of her subjects.. no doubt..